Botany is fun in part because it has its own arcane descriptive vocabulary. One of my favorite botanical words is "arborescent", meaning resembling a tree. The

Botany is fun in part because it has its own arcane descriptive vocabulary. One of my favorite botanical words is "arborescent", meaning resembling a tree. There are whole genera where some of the related plants are trees and others aren't. There's Aloe vera, which you can keep in a pot on your windowsill, and then there is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloidendron_barberae https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloidendron_barberae which can be 60 ft tall. A bunch of the tree aloes got split off somewhat recently, but there are a lot of genera where some have tree forms and others are tiny. Dracaena is another one, where you have the "snake plant" that's probably the most common office plant in the world, and it got lumped together with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracaena_draco https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracaena_draco in one genus. Taxonomy is wild.